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Observations of Scatter Clouds

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THE observations made recently by P. Millman and his colleagues in Canada1 are of particular interest to me. I have made many observations of these scatter clouds on waves of about 8 or 9 Mc./s. Thousands of photographs have been obtained, and an explanation of the effect of the clouds upon long-distance transmission has been given2.

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  1. Nature, 161, 278 (1948).

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  2. J. Inst. Elect. Eng., 86, No. 522, 548 (June 1940).

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ECKERSLEY, T. Observations of Scatter Clouds. Nature 162, 24–25 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162024a0

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